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greenMonkey:
When it comes to metal, my tastes and experiences are fairly limited.  However, the metal I like is what I consider 'heavier' than other metal that I have heard.  I generally dislike metal involving super-fast blast beats and shredding guitar solos, as well as metal that extensively uses cookie-monster vocals.  Instead I like metal that is full of low-frequency growling guitars and what might be considered slower tempos, or perhaps less virtuosity and technical complexity.  I think the best example of this that I have heard is Pelican's album Australasia.  The second track, Drought, sounds to me like a solid brick wall impacting a bus in slow-motion.  I think my taste for slow, low, and heavily distorted metal stems from my enjoyment of post-rock, which seems to be somewhat of an influence on bands like Pelican.

So, I have two questions to pose:

1. What, to you, signifies 'heavy'?

2. What other music should I check out, based on the description of my tastes posted above?

PacoSees:
I can only really answer the first one, but to me, heavy is more of a range thing than speed.

Something that goes low, doesn't have machine-gun-style drumming, and preferably doesn't have "cookie-monster" vocals.

I love the nice climax with a wicked solo though.  It makes the transition from "I need small animals to die" to "WATCH ME KILL YOU ALL AND STEAL YOUR WOMEN".

a pack of wolves:
I'm not even going to mess with trying to define heavy, that one's a nightmare. On the recommendations front, I say you try:
Snowblood - http://www.myspace.com/beingandbecoming
Men In Search Of The Perfect Weapon - http://www.myspace.com/misotpw
Humanfly - http://www.myspace.com/humanfly
The first two blend post-rock with that heavy, Neurosis-influenced sort of thing whereas Humanfly are more prog in approach, although not a million miles from Pelican at all so you'll probably like them. I can't think of anyone else really worth bothering with off the top of my head but that's because this style just seems really played out to me at the moment, there's been a terrible glut of bands doing it and it's all getting a bit tiresome really. Snowblood I'll never tire of but they're in a league of their own.

I second the Kyuss recommendation. I never really play them much anymore but they do fit the bill of what you want and Tommy's right, those two albums are fantastic, particularly the big sun-drenched juggernaut that is Welcome To Sky Valley.

greenMonkey:
I guess I should clarify that I'm open to recommendations of anything, that one Pelican song just seemed to fit my description really well.  Also, I'm still very interested in hearing what people consider to be 'heavy'.

Kai:
can't we just listen to DOPESMOKER instead?

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